The Nine-Leaf Green Flower was expected to mature in another half month, so they had plenty of time.
All they needed to do for the remaining time was wait in camp.
Ye Chuqi had no intention of simply sitting around waiting. There was plenty she could do. Besides choosing a greatsword for herself, she also picked out a beginner's longsword for Xiaojiu. Every day, she supervised him through two hours of horse stance, five thousand sword swings, running laps, frog jumps, pull-ups, and more—a combination of training methods from across the ages and around the world.
When Kang Nan learned how much training Xiaojiu did every day, he initially remained perfectly composed. Then he learned that Ye Chuqi did four times as much as Xiaojiu, and he was left speechless.
He used a sword too, but he had never tried swinging it twenty thousand times in a single day. Even at one swing per second, completing the task would take over five hours.
Ye Chuqi swung her sword much faster than he had imagined. She finished twenty thousand swings in just two hours, which meant she swung roughly two or three times a second. Kang Nan had watched her movements. Every single swing followed exactly the same path, with the same force and the same arc, without the slightest deviation.
He could grit his teeth and manage twenty thousand swings, but making every swing exactly the same was beyond him.
Was this the gap between them?
After that, another person joined the daily sword-swinging routine.
Kang Nan believed that since he was stronger than Xiaojiu, he ought to train more as well, so he simply doubled Xiaojiu's training load. By the end of the first day, his entire body ached, his limbs were cramping, and he could not get up.